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That or if someone invests heavily enough into building a coherent linux desktop. There are a lot of great things about linux and some of the desktops are quit
by catinsocks 13y ago
That or if someone invests heavily enough into building a coherent linux desktop.
There are a lot of great things about linux and some of the desktops are quite good (gnome 3.4+, kde) but they just aren't quite there with the small glitches and annoyances that come up just often enough to be off putting for end users.
I think linux or another free OS needs a huge backing to make it mainstream and we may see that with android (or something in a similar vein) in the future but for now the desktop is left Apple and Microsoft
- pekk 13y agoSounds like something Ubuntu has been castigated for trying to do. Don't work on open source, unless you do everything each person wants (and these may be conflicting) then someone will decide it isn't open enough regardless of the actual license.
- derefr 13y agoI don't understand why it has to be open at all. Why isn't there a company building a closed/polished corporate desktop experience on top of Linux? (Basically, doing with Linux what Apple did with BSD.) It's not like anything in Linux has switched to GPLv3, so there's nothing stopping this from happening.